We're excited to announce BananaMind 2V, our small vision model series! These models are NOT released yet. We will release them in mid-august! BananaMind 2V will include: BananaMind 2V 256M, the flagship based on BananaMind 2 Pro (BananaMind 2 Pro is not released yet). BananaMind 2V 100M, our mid model, based on BananaMind 2 Medium. BananaMind 2V 50M, our smallest vision model, based on BananaMind 2 Mini. These are currently unreleased and will release in mid-august. Our training will start after BananaMind 2 Pro has finished training.
I made a speedrun leaderboard for LoRA fine-tuning. One frozen task (Qwen2.5-1.5B to 57% on GSM8K), one GPU, fastest training run wins. Every record gets re-run 3x with fresh seeds on identical hardware before it counts, so no self-reported numbers.
The baseline was 11:57 three days ago. Someone already got it down to 1:44, with data pruning and a chunked cross-entropy that never materializes the logits.
Attempting is free (Modal's monthly credits cover full runs), and the second track (SmolLM2 + SQuAD) is still sitting at its naive baseline โ easy first record for someone.